IDC confirms huge savings of using PaaS

By Ken McElrath, CEO

A startling new fact for your consideration — on average companies using the Force.com PaaS were able to recognize benefit of $8.21 for every $1 invested!

This conclusion comes from a recent study completed by IDC of organizations leveraging the Force.com PaaS (the same platform-as-a-service used by Skoodat for education). The results were staggeringly good news for educators willing to move to the Force.com PaaS by leveraging Skoodat's innovative cloud tool box for education.

According to IDC, using PaaS "reduced costs for development and post-development management, and in higher revenue recognition due to increased agility and faster time to market."

IDC confirmed Skoodat's foundational assumption that the rise of Cloud computing could be among the most transformative developments in IT since the late 1980s, and that the Force.com platform has emerged as an early leader in defining and delivering PaaS solutions.

Benefits identified in the white paper include:

Faster to market. Custom applications were developed and deployed in 76% less time and required 76 to 85% fewer developer hours

Lower cost. Companies were able to reduce their three year TCO by 54%, saving $560,000 per application

Higher quality. Users of the custom applications built on the Force.com platform reduced Annual Downtime by 97% and 60% less time dealing with the service desk

Better performance. The combination of the first three benefits contributed to
better business performance and generated an additional $3.9 million in annual
revenue for each firm.

To get all the details, download the white paper from our site.

Silence is golden

By Tim Youngblood, CTO

Just a matter of days from the anniversary of Skoodat's founding, funding and the beginning of the journey to change education from the data up. This blog has been a bit quiet as of late. With that said...

Big thanks to everyone on our product development team for the following metrics:

Objects: 61

Visualforce Pages: 38

Triggers: 26

Classes: 88

Total lines code without comments: 47,856

If you are familiar with the Force.com environment you might have an idea of what this volume of code means in dog years with old client server platforms. If you are curious about what features sit on top, don't hesitate to contact us.

We were just named a finalist for the Force.com 40 competition at Dreamforce 2009 after winning the popular vote of our competitors in round 3 of the semifinals.

You see, silence is golden, after all.

If you are attending Dreamforce we would really enjoy seeing you there and talking about education and the cloud.